When cell towers starting popping up in the 90's they were signs of progress, but then as more sprouted they became an eye sore.

When cell towers starting popping up in the ’90s, they were signs of progress, but then as more sprouted they became an eyesore. Even worse was when they were planted in a neighborhood and towered over friendly suburban houses. In an attempt to make them blend into the landscape, cell companies have tried to disguise the towers. The tree-shaped cell towers come in different varieties, including pine trees, palms, furs, and even ones that look like dead snag trees. They’re not fooling us though; we can still tell they’re cell towers and they’re still broadcasting in our back yards.

Dillon Marsh, a landscape photographer who likes to focus on humanity’s interaction with nature, noticed all of the cell phone trees in his town of Cape Town and began documenting them. His filtered images evoke a sense of nostalgia for a time before the digital invasion. In a few, the towers almost fit in, but most of them stick out like a sore thumb. Invasive Species explores this relationship between the environment and these disguised cell towers.